This Week at SF Film Society | NEW PEOPLE Cinema is the continuation of HERE, MICHAEL, and the double feature of Eric Rohmer films, LE RAYON VERT (SUMMER), and FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE!

Through May 17
1:45, 6:30pm

Braden King’s debut feature is a carefully composed romantic drama detailing the fraught relationship between Will, a satellite-mapping expert, and Gadarine, the exuberant Armenian-born photographer he meets while conducting a survey of the country. Deciding on impulse to travel together, the film details their unique journey and the dramatic personal transformations it leads each of them through. With memorable performances by Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal as the couple and remarkable footage of the Armenian landscape, Here reinvents the romantic road-trip film with poetic visual and verbal flourishes.
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Through May 17
4:15, 9:00pm

Superb performances enrich this restrained drama about a quiet pedophile’s home life with a kidnapped boy. Michael is employed at an Austrian insurance company. A solitary and somewhat irritable worker, his behavior gives no indication that at home he has a 10-year-old boy locked in a soundproof room in the basement. By telling this dark story with the cool, impassive gaze of an outside observer which sometimes results in a kind of grim humor, and without making any attempt to explain Michael’s behavior, director Markus Schleinzer creates a strongly disquieting portrait of evil. MORE INFO >>

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May 18 – 24
2:15, 6:45pm

Declared the best movie of the year in 1986 by Andrew Sarris, Le Rayon Vert is frequently cited as a career triumph in a filmography that includes numerous great films. Rohmer stock player Rivière, who assisted in writing her largely self-created role, delivers one of the most captivating lead performances in any of the filmmaker’s works. MORE INFO >>

May 18 – 24
4:30, 9:00pm

Over the course of four episodes, two young women—one from the city, the other from the country —meet and bond over an exquisite atmospheric event just before daybreak known as the “Blue Hour” and then room together in Paris, where they encounter many of the inevitable characters of a modern city. MORE INFO >>

This Week at SF Film Society | NEW PEOPLE Cinema is the continuation of THE DAY HE ARRIVES followed by HERE and MICHAEL!

Through May 10
3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00pm

High Modernist master of contemporary South Korean cinema Hong Sang-soo returns, and then returns again, to his cherished tableaux of endlessly looped and ever loopier time travels in Seoul in this black-and-white twice-told tale about a drunken filmmaker and the women he torments and is tormented by. MORE INFO >>

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May 11 – 17
1:45, 6:30pm

Braden King’s debut feature is a carefully composed romantic drama detailing the fraught relationship between Will, a satellite-mapping expert, and Gadarine, the exuberant Armenian-born photographer he meets while conducting a survey of the country. Deciding on impulse to travel together, the film details their unique journey and the dramatic personal transformations it leads each of them through. With memorable performances by Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal as the couple and remarkable footage of the Armenian landscape, Here reinvents the romantic road-trip film with poetic visual and verbal flourishes. MORE INFO >>

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May 11 – 17
4:15, 9:00pm

Superb performances enrich this restrained drama about a quiet pedophile’s home life with a kidnapped boy. Michael is employed at an Austrian insurance company. A solitary and somewhat irritable worker, his behavior gives no indication that at home he has a 10-year-old boy locked in a soundproof room in the basement. By telling this dark story with the cool, impassive gaze of an outside observer which sometimes results in a kind of grim humor, and without making any attempt to explain Michael’s behavior, director Markus Schleinzer creates a strongly disquieting portrait of evil. MORE INFO >>

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This Week at SF Film Society | NEW PEOPLE Cinema is the continuation of THE TURIN HORSE followed by 55TH SF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!

Through April 19
2:00, 5:30, 8:30pm

Purportedly Béla Tarr’s final film, this masterpiece takes its scenario from a traumatic incident in Friedrich Nietzche’s life when he witnessed a horse being mercilessly whipped. Wondering what happened to the horse, the Hungarian auteur crafts a relentless film depicting the domestic life of a horse-cart driver and his daughter. Detailing the bare components of their impoverished daily lives, their existence worsens when their horse refuses to eat, drink, or pull a cart. Hinting at apocalypse with howling winds, scorched-earth terrain and gas lamps going mysteriously dark, Tarr’s incomparable but challenging film shows the persistence (and fruitlessness) of human effort in spite of everything. MORE INFO >>

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April 20 – May 3

Held each spring for 15 days, the International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in one of the country’s most beautiful cities, featuring 200 films and live events, 14 juried awards and $70,000 in cash prizes, upwards of 100 participating filmmaker guests and diverse and engaged audiences with more than 70,000 people in attendance. For a full list of SFIFF films playing at SF Film Society Cinema visit HERE

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Rediscover Cinema: SFIFF 55 Trailer from San Francisco Film Society on Vimeo.